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US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

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Kepler said:
The Saudis have their own Kushner.
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The Saudi monarch, who holds near absolute powers, quickly awarded his son expansive powers to the surprise of many within the royal family who are more senior and more experienced than Mohammed bin Salman, also known by his initials MBS.
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In my world, MBS = Mortgage Backed Securities; these are the investments that led to the widespread pain felt during the 2007 mortgage/housing collapse.
 
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Kepler said:
Look, 50 thousand people who are about to fall out of windows.
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That takes balls. Erdogan does not take kindly to such things, and he keeps getting more and more power do just about anything he wants.

And God that must be a miserable march.
 
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That takes balls. Erdogan does not take kindly to such things, and he keeps getting more and more power do just about anything he wants.

And God that must be a miserable march.
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Interesting though that the pro-government people along the route are echoing Erdogen's talking points, just like the pro-Trump people here do.

They're the same people, they just were born there rather than here. There is an authoritarian personality type that is a (fairly large, apparently) subset of conservatism, and it craves an iron hand.

Parents, they argued, bring about authoritarianism by frequently and seriously punishing and shaming their children for even minor offences. This makes them hostile to adults and all authority figures in power. The child does not consciously acknowledge this aggression because it simply lead to more punishment. Also they are dependent on their parents whom they are supposed to love, which can cause great tension.

Thus, so the theory goes, those exposed to authoritarian, rather than authoritative, parenting have their repressed antagonism displaced and projected onto weaker members of society.

Authoritarians are nearly always ethnocentric in that they have a certain, simple and unshakable belief in the superiority of their own racial, cultural and ethnic group with a powerful disclaim for all those in other groups. This can easily lead to brutality, aggression and naked open prejudice.
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Kepler said:
Interesting though that the pro-government people along the route are echoing Erdogen's talking points, just like the pro-Trump people here do.

They're the same people, they just were born there rather than here. There is an authoritarian personality type that is a (fairly large, apparently) subset of conservatism, and it craves an iron hand.
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It's true, we've seen it in Russia for centuries - probably 75-80% of their population prefers a strongman. They just change names and regimes every so often, depending on how much starving the proles have been doing lately.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It's true, we've seen it in Russia for centuries - probably 75-80% of their population prefers a strongman. They just change names and regimes every so often, depending on how much starving the proles have been doing lately.
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Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.

Republicanism works here. Democracy works in other places. Authoritarianism works for others.
 
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joecct said:
Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.
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I'd say that is true of most.
 
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joecct said:
Many people want to be left alone, have enough to eat, a nice roof over their heads, good schools, safery of person and family, and a reasonably good standard of living. The form of government is immaterial to them.

Republicanism works here. Democracy works in other places. Authoritarianism works for others.
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I do not know whether a majority of Americans would choose to fight for democratic government if an authoritarian regime assured them 3 hots, a cot, and superior treatment to some convenient Out group they could then lord it over.

Arguably the white South made that bargain a century ago and has never looked back.
 
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Not this dick again.

Note the quick Iran conflation at the end. The song remains the same.
 
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Hey, Bibi is just like our RWNJs! :p

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former chief of staff Ari Harow has reached an agreement with the prosecution to turn state's witness in two corruption cases against Netanyahu.

Under the deal, Harow will be convicted of fraud and breach of trust in a separate case, but will avoid jail time. Instead, he will do community service as pay a 700,000-shekel ($193,000) fine.

The Israel Police confirmed on Thursday that the prime minister is suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
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